{"product_id":"beaut-9780932112743","title":"Beaut","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe monster called my cell phone this morning, demanding money. So begins Jill Lundgrove, the unforgettable protagonist of Beaut. Secluded in a cheap apartment on a ring road of Des Moines after a fire has destroyed her house--a blaze the Monster, her drug-addicted, adult son might have caused--she confronts her precarious circumstances. I''m in great need of reckoning, she writes, partly to herself and to another initially unnamed. What of that fire, the Monster''s criminal companions, and the surprising prospect of a love affair after years of widowhood? And what of her three other children, who have variously sought to protect her, flee her, dominate her? The haunting story that follow vividly illuminates the discordant accords of marriage and madness, the ambivalence in motherhood, and the mysteries of inheritance--and bestows a strange, unexpected gift on those closest to her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With his debut novel, Donald Morrill shows that prose and poetry can become indistinguishable on the page just as beauty and tragedy are often indistinguishable in our lives. This is a punchy, finely written novel driven by a fierce determination to condense our humanity to the written word.\" –Wiley Cash, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Ballad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Land More Kind Than Home\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeaut\u003c\/i\u003e is as sharp and luminous a novel as I have read this year, a meditation on the terrible beauty and grace of the stories we tell ourselves and the legacies we leave behind.\" –Taylor Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eThe River of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFallen Land\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Carolina Wren Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359290491223,"sku":"9780932112743","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780932112743.jpg?v=1754124227","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beaut-9780932112743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}